housing prices

Property bubble was not removed in China, says IMF

July 21, 2011 - 4:13am | Analytics | News

The International Monetary Fund warned China that it remains concerned over the property bubble in the country. The prices in many cities remain high even though Beijing has introduced higher inflation rate.

Chinese government undertook some measures to cool the real estate sector by having reduced transaction volumes and property price increases, but still in some larger cities prices still look “bubbly,” said Nigel Chalk, IMF mission chief to China.

China | housing prices | IMF | property bubble | real estate

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Improvements in housing and consumer confidence add to recovery laudations

August 26, 2009 - 3:48am | Analytics | News

New figures on consumer confidence and new statements that recovery is closer while the recession is over. Well, maybe following the principle that the thoughts and words have their energy that can be eventually incarnated government and other people are making additional efforts as a part of their work to draw us out of the crisis. Anyway, as some people think Tuesday reports about gains in U.S. housing prices and consumer confidence can be viewed as a proof of that the economy is emerging from the longest recession since the 1930s.

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Investors to bet against recovery?

July 1, 2009 - 9:12am | Investment industry | News

investment manager MacroMarkets launched exchange-traded products on the NYSE Arca on Tuesday. These new exchange-listed securities will enable investors to bet for or against a recovery in the residential real estate market with which the movements of U.S. home prices will be imitated. The ascent in U.S. housing prices will be reflected by the rise of the MacroShares Major Metro Housing Up whereas MacroShares Major Metro Housing Down profits when real estate values fall.

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